Primal Blood
Order of the Shattered Throne
Conclave of the Spheres
Legion of the Fallen
Seekers
Sigrith
The chosen of the Valcarist Church has joined the fray! Her sacred shield reveals those who should live and those who must die. In her presence, the defenses of the Order cannot be broken and those who try will learn the meaning of divine retribution.
Born in the lowest caste in the Order of the Shattered Throne, Sigrith's destiny was not set for her to live so low. Since a very young age, there had been a voice demanding great deeds from her. That voice guided her, ensuring that she would become a formidable warrior by the time the Battle of Penitent Crossing happened. That’s where she would prove her worth, being granted the holy shield, Andravon, by divine providence.
In the holy city of Tempras Sigrith’s worth would be measured. There, under the scrutiny of the great powers of the Valcarist Church, she became one with the Andravon, her Legacy. The voice that had guided Sigrith all her life was no longer a whisper in her head, but a resonating choir. That day the voice flowed from her and those present heard the Valcarist Truth. She prophesied a great upheaval in the Malediction and called on those who were righteous of soul, to give their lives to her cause. None who bore witness could have denied the truth in her words and so many became her followers.
She has since won many battles in the name of the Order. The Valcarist Church parades her as a “chosen of the Everlasting”, taking advantage of her unwavering faith to forward their goals. As of late, some of them have also grown worried that the voice of the Andravon may mark them as unworthy. The Order has decreed the time is right for the Great Reclamation of the continent and has called forth its armies. As part of this effort, Sigrith is to be sent to the Malediction, to recover the missing shards of the Shattered Throne. Sigrith does not think her work within her homeland is complete, but cannot refuse the commands of the Lucidi, and her Legacy has not yet named them as deserving of her blade. Instead, the Andravon speaks now of new opportunities, of the power to “set the world right”, long lost within the accursed lands. She marches now into the Malediction, towards the Osterath of yore, to find that very power.
Auric
Auric was born to a family of traveling merchants, but after a vicious attack by the Primal Blood that cost him his father and sister, he vowed to enact bloody vengeance on them. He will save them from their savage ways, be it by his hand—or his hammer.
Born a merchant from a proud family of caravan traders, Auric had his path set toward a calm future. Intending to inherit his father's business, Auric saw his plans shattered when Primal Blood raiders attacked their caravan. His father came to his family's defense wielding the mighty Voice of the Forge, revealing himself to be a direct descendant of Onyx Hammerhaft, ancestral king of the vulkir people. Auric's father would die that day but would buy enough time for a contingent of the Order to rescue his wife and son.
Auric would spend decades preparing for his vengeance. He recovered his father’s Legacy, a symbol of hope for his people, sacrificing his own arm in order to use it. It is both a tool for creation and a weapon of destruction, a dual nature reflected in Auric himself. He hopes to reestablish the ancient kingdoms of his people and the Order has given him a path to accomplish this. Conquer the Malediction and the continent in the name of the Everlasting and carve civilization from the chaos of a land untamed by mortals. Creation born of destruction.
For a time, Auric was given rulership over the city of New Osterath, the southernmost settlement of the Order, existing outside the protection of the mountains and squarely within the territory of the Primal Blood. There he worked tirelessly to fight off the warlords of the region and pacify it. To this effect he has also brought many members of the Primal Blood into the fold, winning their loyalty by his prodigious feats in battle. He has focused on recruiting those who had been taken by the Primal Blood as infants, but any who bend the knee are allowed to join him.
Now he has received a new mission: To secure and reclaim the continent the malediction must be conquered. The Order has entrusted Auric with establishing a foothold within the accursed lands, from where they can launch their expeditions. He will do their bidding, but his thirst for vengeance is not yet sated and he would rather stack enemy corpses than stone.
Londriel
Born before the Fall, Londriel survived the cataclysm entrapped inside her Relic, the Ark of Lamentation. She awakened to find a world lost to chaos, in need of a protector. She will become the savior she needs to be, and rebuild all that was lost.
Screams, panic, a rumble loud enough to crack the world asunder, and then, silence—that's all Londriel seems to remember about the Fall, the great cataclysm that birthed the Malediction and sunk Selejia into chaos. Now, awakened in a strange world, changed to its very core while she slumbered for a thousand years, protected by the Ark of Lamentation, Londriel struggles to find her home once more.
Whether it was trauma or tender age, as she was but a child when the world died, Londriel seems to recall very little of the cataclysm, and it is not known if putting her into the Ark’s stasis was an action of outside forces, or if her Relic did so out of its own, unknown whim, but it is certain that she was granted a mercy that would befall no one else. Awakened in Tempras, deep in the Order’s territory, Londriel was adopted by a loving family. There, amidst a society of zealots, she saw herself torn between different expectations. For some, she was a living saint, a living embodiment of the will of the Everlasting, a symbol to be worshipped, while for others, her nature as an erisyr brought much strain to the Order’s culture, and she was seen as an outsider to be feared.
Raised on the principles of the Order, Londriel encompasses their dedication towards a higher purpose, channeling their teachings into hatred for corruption. As she was sent to study the ways of Liastrum magic on Quinvala, this naivety would be her, and her master's, sentence. Always inquisitive, Londriel learned unsettling secrets about the Conclave, and the greediness that seeped from the Nexi, infuriating her to the breaking point. Openly denouncing the Conclave's immorality and negligence, Londriel and Polinore would be punished on account of non-conformism. Worse still, her master stood silent as both were accused and sentenced.
Londriel, however, sees in this merely the righteousness of her actions, and won't let anything stop her from creating a new home for herself and for those who choose to see the truth. She knows that to topple power, she too must be powerful, and so, as the Ebbing commences, she strides toward the Malediction. Perhaps, she also hopes to uncover the secrets of her past.